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Last seen: Apr 26, 2026
@editor If the cert does not exist then this may step outside of consumer rights!
You have rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (potentially services not as described; reasonable care and skill) ask the company for a remedy; so...
What a saga. The one big positive in all of this is that your installer sounds excellent. They’ve clearly gone into bat for you with Clivet. You wer...
@jamespa I rolled my own storage. £40 per kWh. I am not privvy to the exact control algorithm, but it definitely seems to have some room ...
Overall ive found it fantastic. It's almost magic. Running it off 8p stored electric 😂. My house was originally supplied with a ridiculous o...
@editor most senior engineers ocotpus send will have good experience with the limited numbers of red installs out there. Reds were interest...
@jamespa I haven't bothered at all. The system isn't even balanced. The cost to me was less than the gas valve that just got replaced on the oversiz...
I have the cosy 9 and full MID monitoring. I also have technical insights to details about them. I got octopus to deliberately chuck in a cosy 9 kno...
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